This building is located on a plot of 4000 m2 with the purpose of becoming the focus of main activity of housing in the summer months. For this, a pavilion is created totally open to the garden as a continuity of this one. It is a completely permeable construction, but with its own very marked identity, because the deck slab defies gravity by means of the imposing cantilever which, because it has no supports, is directly linked to the pool, being only a roof that ‘floats’ to generate shade in the rest of the program: an open kitchen with barbecue and a traditional oven, a large arbour, and the toilet area and dressing rooms to service the pool. The hidden perimeter lighting still further highlights the slab’s lightness, while the Corten Steel lagging provides a modern look that fits seamlessly with the main house.

The project is located within the headquarter of Eurac Research Center on Druso Avenue in Bozen, known as “ex-GIL”. The structure was designed by architects Mansutti and Miozzo, and was constructed in the years 1934 to 1936 in order to accommodate youth females enrolled in GIL (Gioventù Italiana del Littorio). Following the war, the building, renamed “Ex-GIL”, was used for different purposes, from supermarket to pornographic cinema, and was abandoned over time to a slow degradation. In 1995 an international architectural competition for the transformation of the ensemble into the new headquarters for Eurac Research was announced. The jury decided unanimously for the design of Graz-based architect Klaus Kada, who integrated the building which is under the protection of cultural assets with modern rational and transparent glass intersections.

In 2015 the Bozen-based architecture office Roland Baldi Architects together to architect Elena Casati won the tender for the construction of a lunch room under the auditorium from 1930s.

The Pompeii-red Auditorium, part of the original building complex, has the shape of an oval cylinder and is completed in the roof area by a dome which rests on the pillars of the exterior wall.

foto: Oskar Da Riz

foto: Oskar Da Riz

The project was intended to create a new volume between the high columns, in order to minimize the impact on pre-existence. To this end, it is decided to build a glazed facade on the inner wire of the second line of pillars.

Even in the interior space, Roland Baldi Architects has decided to make minimal interventions. The floor was built in medium finishing polished concrete, the sloping ceiling with an acoustic plaster in Pompeian red, which corresponds to the original color.

foto: Oskar Da Riz

foto: Oskar Da Riz

The hall should give space to approx. 112 people seated or 168 people standing. No kitchen is foreseen, only a heating zone of dishes and the distribution zone of meals. The fixed furniture consists of a monolithic countertop made of stainless steel and a transparent glass element which functions as an exhaust air duct for mechanical ventilation as well as conceals the technical material.

The soccer pitch is a project extending the sport court both physically and socially.

Starting from the field, a consistent visual treatment expands to the surrounding space creating a visual identity that goes beyond the particular architectural intervention. The abstract camouflage visible from the street leads to the arena, as an invitation to be experienced from the inside.

The former asphalt plot is transformed into a permeable box. The three-dimensional feature makes it recognizable from the street, generating curiosity and providing a landmark in the sub-urban landscape.

A translucent fabric provides sense of enclosure, as in a hyperlocal arena.

The iconic feature is enhanced by the extensive use of an abstract camouflage pattern. Green being the color of Bondy city, the camouflage recalls the concepts of challenge and confrontation, while the use of different shades of the same color refers to social multiplicity.

laisné roussel is an architecture studio created in 2003 in Paris. Partners Nicolas Laisné and Dimitri Roussel have been able to bring together a multicultural and multidisciplinary team working in the fields of architecture, urban development, research and development.

Værnedamsvej must be the hippest street in Copenhagen and a very lively street. Linking together two neighborhoods; Vesterbro and Frederiksberg, and with a traffic chaos that have become a part of the charm. In the past known as “The Butchers’ Street” (due to the large number of butchers on the street) but today people go there to eat breakfast, shop and in the evening, dine and drink wine. This building was too a formally butcher’s shop called “Slagter Ryholt” (1907-1999). We have kept some of the atmosphere with the vintage green tiles on the walls, and we still welcome our guests with the custom mosaic tiles and checkerboard showcasing the butchers name “Ryholt”. The French School are placed in the middle of the street and because of that, and the fact that all the cafés, delis and restaurants have a French atmosphere, the street is also known as “Little Paris”. Some of the materials such as the beautiful white Carrara marble tops for the bar, bread station and window seats, together with dark fumed oak tabletops and raw steel along with brass, we combine the classic bistro feel from Paris with excellent craftmanship. KBH Snedkeri is a local company committed to the craft of making handmade furniture. We combine the historic elements in the building with new, long lasting furniture that already had a story to tell, the moment they arrived. Everything is custom made and amazingly looks like it has been there forever. This is what the spirit of Copenhagen is to us.

C.F. Møller and Tredje Natur present a new lower-secondary school building at Islands Brygge, which provides the framework for physical, sensory and experience-based learning, with special focus on food and movement.

COPENHAGEN: The New Islands Brygge School is taking shape between Islands Brygge’s vibrant city life and Amager Commons’ green countryside – a new school building for lower-secondary pupils, and with special focus on food and movement. The school building will accommodate a total of 784 pupils up to school-leaving age, as well as the school’s staff and a sports hall. The building will cover around 10,000 square metres, with outdoor areas of 4,000 square metres.

C.F. Møller and Tredje Natur are behind the design of New Islands Brygge School, which will be built by the turnkey contractor MT Højgaard. Located in the heart of Copenhagen, but close to the countryside, the school will be a strong new connecting link in the area between the city, port and commons. This is a hybrid building that connects the city’s intimate expanse with the port’s materialities, and the natural setting of Amager Commons, creating an imaginative learning space with its fusion of nature and culture.

The school’s special focus will enable pupils to relate theoretical teaching with physical, sensory and experience-based learning. This type of learning has given shape to New Islands Brygge School.

New Islands Brygge School will be a profile school with food as its special theme. There is special emphasis on making meal preparation and mealtimes a central element of the school’s design. The first thing new arrivals at the school will see is the double-high-ceilinged dining hall, which is not just the canteen, but also the hub which interconnects all of the school’s functions. This makes the dining hall the gathering point where pupils can meet across the school’s many activities.

The home economics kitchen and the catering kitchen are located on opposite sides of the canteen area. Both functions are highly visible from the area, emphasising the importance of the good meal. This relationship emphasises the social aspect of food production, brings the meal out of the classroom, and strengthens the “heart of the school” as a joint area where the senses also come into play, to see, smell and taste.

This also creates outdoor areas to support the school’s food profile. The inspiring home economics learning environment will enable pupils to try their hand at growing and preparing different food crops, and to enjoy the results of their work. The area has individual planter boxes and raised beds which the pupils can use to cultivate and care for their own crops and vegetables. Greenhouses will extend the growing season. In the outdoor kitchen and at the camp-fire site, pupils can experiment with open-air cooking.

Movement is another focus area for the school. This makes it important that the school’s architecture encourages physical activity and play. This is achieved especially with a active roof surface, which extends from street level and upwards above the school’s three stories. The roof landscape gives access to several of the school’s functions, so that pupils can take a fun and active short cut across and up onto the roof. The top part of the roof is the sports area, with ample opportunity for physical activity on the running track, in the parkour area, or in the enclosed ball pitch.

The school’s interior and outdoor spaces are designed to be in close contact with each other. Each class has direct access to the roof landscape from their home area, while the school’s natural science area is linked to an outdoor area with a biology garden, greenhouse for physics and chemistry, and the gardens.

The large exterior flow of connected roof landscapes forms a spiral of outdoor rooms that create a strong connection to the school’s indoor spaces, making it natural to move teaching and play outdoors, where children can move around with any restrictions in the playful environment.

Architecture to reinforce learning

The school is built from sustainable materials and its compact form, effective climate screen and efficient duplicate use of functions ensure low energy consumption on space heating. There is special emphasis on a good ceiling height and ample daylight in every classroom, as there is evidence that classroom learning is stimulated by good daylight conditions. Together with the movement and nature theme, and the extensive involvement of the roof as an activity area, the New Islands Brygge lower-secondary school building represents the innovative, sustainable and active learning rooms in built-up urban areas that will be a key trend in the future.

In May 2017, C.F. Møller won the competition for the New Islands Brygge School in cooperation with MT Højgaard and Tredje Natur.

Campus Melaten is an area of land belonging to the state of North Rhine-Westphalia that has been granted to the RWTH Aachen University for expansion purposes, and residential use is generally not permitted.

Due to the significant increase in the number of students and the tremendous lack of student housing, RWTH Aachen University and the city of Aachen have decided to temporarily release two of the solitary areas on the “Campus Melaten” to provide in the short-term student housing opportunities.

In order to meet the high architectural standard at the “Campus Melaten”, the head sides and the window frames of the formerly colorful modules were given an anthracite coating to get a uniform level with the glass surfaces.

According to the modular construction the facades seem monotone, for this reason protruded modules were built in to brighten appearance. For the coherent completion of the design, the gable ends of the single houses where restaged by a metallic façade.

Crouch End sits in a hollow between the sharp ridge of Crouch Hill to the south and Muswell Hill to the north. Between the dialogue of views from Crouch Hill to the iconic Alexandra Palace the topography steeply descends along residential streets of terrace housing. The house forms part of the final group of four early Edwardian terrace properties on this path.

The project restores the principle façades and extends to the side and rear at the ground floor. The entrance contains a reconfigured vestibule from which leads a corridor through to the living spaces that gradually step down following the topography of the site. The internal spaces terrace from private rooms increasing in volume towards an open living space at the rear sunken to the level of the garden.

An existing rear addition did not address the garden and hence had become an un-seen and un-cared for component of the property. The new brick extension appears as a pavilion addition adapting the original building towards the garden. Alterations to the flank walls created an opportunity to expose and feature the solid construction of the original building.

The project is located in the core of old town Beijing. Close to Zhang Zi-zhong road, the ancient charm and modern style of the government add radiance and beauty to each other, which is incredibly fun.

The building is connected by two courtyards. Walking into a Chinese red gate, there is a courtyard. The left side is the front desk, and the right side is the indoor audio-visual reading area. The indoor audiovisual reading area is facing the front courtyard of the white polar. The glass brick hide in the front courtyard wall to bring soft lighting for the room. In the twilight, the warm yellow light reflected from the vitreous brick, interlaced with the modern light and shadow matrix.

The eastern corridor of the front yard is a shared corridor for recreation, which help extend the street of hutong and city, forming a ‘half outdoor’ new space. The grey brick and public furnitures become the connection of the past and present. The whole corridor runs through the front and back yard, using the floor-to-ceiling windows to get a beautiful view of the courtyards. The corridor looks like a long hutong, visiting tourists, guests and neighbors can meet and communicate here. And through the public furnitures bring a unique communication.

The courtyard is the most interesting point of Chinese ancient building. Along the corridor to the backyard, the corner of the east side is a small landscape surrounded by green tiles. Through the backyard, we can go through the south side stairs to the second floor. The terrace of the second floor is connected by the roof of a corridor, forming a typical Beijing hutong cultural experience, siting between the roof tiles and the shade of the trees, listening to the cicadas in summer and watching the snow in winter.

The front and backyard guest rooms are both equipped with a bathroom area with smart biker, smart laundry drying equipment. The modern technology gives the traditional architectural functions new possibilities.

The narrow house faces north and the front living area becomes flooded with sunlight, penetrating deep into the hallway.

The raised cathedral ceiling draws up much of the hot air during occasional hot summer periods, leaving the lower areas of the house cooler.

The existing house had good thermal properties to begin with. Most of both party walls are shared with a neighbour and there is good cross-flow ventilation to release heat when the front and rear doors are opened.

The large skylight over the dining area to the south saves hours of artificial lighting each day.

Surefoot steel footings were chosen because they have the least impact on the ground and surrounding neighbours compared to conventional systems like concrete and stumps. It also worked out to be a lot cheaper, easier and quicker to install.

The first phase of the extension of the metropolitan area subway connects Ruoholahti, Helsinki and Matinkylä, Espoo. Upon completion, in late 2017, the West Metro will service over 100,000 passengers every day.

The Keilaniemi station is the first one on Espoo-side of the extension. It is situated on the narrow strip between sea and land, housing and office blocks, parks and a built shoreline. This borderline condition is a distinct theme for the architectural concept of the station.

Both station entrances interpret the hidden, underground rock geometry, and distill the shapes into the form of the building. Initially free standing objects, the entrances will eventually be transformed into parts of the façade of the neighboring project. The faceted form and dynamic windows leave a recognizable impression. The entrance buildings are partially clad in metal from the east. Sheet metal, a high stone pedestal and glass surfaces share the same surface in the faceted geometry. From the west, the buildings have a simple metal grille façade.

The platform level in Keilaniemi takes some visual and atmospheric cues from the above ground hub of office blocks. The overall look is sleek and reflective. The end walls separating the platform from the escalators are made of glass. The long side walls of the platform are bound by a partial lowered ceiling made with reflective white painted solid aluminum plates which also improve the acoustic qualities of the space. The LED tube based art work titled LIght Weave by the artist duo Grönlund & Nisunen has been embedded as an integral part of the overall design.